1) Princeton
The Tigers keep passing every test. This is a program at a historic pinnacle.
2) Yale
If Grooms plays like he did against Columbia last week, then the Elis have a shot against anyone.
3) Harvard
The Crimson are a very good team, but this season must be a disappointment for them.
4) Penn
The Quaker bubble burst last week, but not embarrassingly so. This is a great rebound year in Philly.
5) Cornell
The Big Red are always respectable, week after week.
6) Brown
The Bears offense makes them dangerous against anyone.
7) Dartmouth
The Big Green are having a rough year, but they're competitive every week.
8) Columbia
It wasn't supposed to be this way this year for the Lions.
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Can you smell a winless Ivy season? Maybe 1-6 will do? Shades of Norries running on the field and celebrating win #1!
Sometimes things workout the way , you would never think would. But the Lions deserve a better fate. Maybe a few lessons learned here. Dig deeper into what is wanted and needed. 3 more games to be played. Here is to better results and outcomes. Go Lions
Here is what we did not anticipate: horrendous special teams play (need I count the ways); very soft pass defense, especially from the safety position; Green’s injury; miscues and mistakes which are uncharacteristic of a Bagnoli team; poor tackling; coaching mistakes on offense (poorly chosen wildcat and 2 point plays stand out); failure to make good half time adjustments; and much to my surprise mediocre OL play.
Sums it up pretty well
Unfortunately, a lot of this foreshadowed in the early, out of conference play. While they were wins, all the weaknesses that have been exploited in conference (except maybe special teams) were evident. But there was also a sense, even in the Princeton game, that the team had what it takes, just needed to focus more on scoring points and playing consistently. The psychological element becomes bigger as the season goes on, and yet they can still pull themselves together, even in the face of a very good Harvard team, surprise everybody, and go on to finish out a respectable season.
Go Lions!
Absolutely agree!
I actually think the Princeton game was the turning point—we were outplaying them but the air came out of the tires when we blew the wildcat on the 5 and also blew the 2 point conversion.
Leadership is hard to cultivate. Mutual trust and respect is even harder. The main leaders on this staff have no respect from any player and haven’t for 5 years. Watch and listen. It is obvious.
This is hard to believe. Al seems to be held in high regard; likewise Sto and Mac.
This is the kind of post that is maddening
Watch college football. Spread offenses, gimmick plays, vertical passing, huddles that organize... Watch the Ivies and note which teams play like the big boys...Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. Can't you see that we need a complete overhaul from the top down?
Ferraro was the key to CU's march to respectability,not Bagnoli
“Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan.” John F. Kennedy
“The devil you know, is better than the devil you do not know”, may be the watchwords here.
Provided, of course, there are not major changes among the assistants. The staff next year has to be different than the staff this year. I would suspect there is little support for the return of Mark Fabish.
However, if you look around, it is not hard to envision a search committee being enamored about John Conlin as a replacement for Al.
While I am ambivalent about the present Head Coach, though not so his staff, I might not advocate his being replaced unless it was for a monumental upgrade, who would have a major impact Day One.
Considering some of the past failures, I cannot envision the next Coach being someone without a history in the Ivy League. Is Jon Poppe the answer? I cannot imagine Mike Elko leaving Duke.
Yet, for all we know, particularly if today is a blowout, Al may take himself out of the picture.
I, for one, do not see a clear answer, other than a wholesale change of the assistants.
How about, like Al coming out of Union in the 80s, a young successful head guy from D III? And a quality D III school! TIME FOR A YOUNG GUY, not only in politics.
Elko is probably getting $3-4 million a year at Duke (he was paid $2.1 million a year as DC at Texas A&M). He has the Blue Devils bowl eligible in his first season when many were picking them to be last in the ACC. No chance he comes to CU, even with his Ivy pedigree.
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